The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκενός“empty”
- English todaykenotron
From Ancient Greek κενός (kenós, “empty”) and the modern English suffix -tron, itself from the Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκενός all →
cenotaphceno-cenosilicaphobiakenophobiakenopsiaxenotime
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.